The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-02-17
ANOTHER FASHION.
The Wealthy More Prone to Corns
Than the Poor.
The Luxury Also Transmitted-A Brooklyn
Artist Who Operated on Bismarck's
Feet-An Imaginative Bride
Tho Political Crop.

"For thirty years | have been reliev-
ing ueople Of corns and bunions," said
de Oldest corn doctor in this city, land
during that time my best customers
hare been lawyers, doctors, preachers
and actors"
How long have you been in Brook
laf''
about ten years"
Has not your profession come into
favor later than thirty years ago."
We'll, SO far as this country is con-
srned it has, but you must remember,
ny dear boy, that my practice among
he crowned heads of Europe COM
nenced as early as have stated. In
l@ ! operated on Bismarck's feet and
Tell you his corns were as big as his
head A remarkable man that, even in
BIS corns; and here let me say, the
wsalthier or higher in station person
sthe better crop OF corns have they.
And Of course those are the kind of
customers gentlemen in my profession
wish to see. When / came to this coun-
irF BARRIERS did all the business, and
many foot they have ruined by their
ignorance of the art of chiropody; but,
happily for the afflicted, we have driven
ne BARRIERS out of that line of business,
md while they attend to their legiti-
mate calling we attend to ours, and l
must say in praise of this city that we
have all we can do with bad and good
tetp
What is the cause of cornP"
II comes by nature, like a wart or
my other pimple. No greater mistake
WIS ever made than to say tight shoes
causes corns, but when the corn is
sHned the pressure of the shoe causes
ae pam. You can bet it never pro-
daees that nuisance of the foot, and my
fason ior SO saying is that in my prac-
aee ihave had children of three years
aeusnt 70 me for treatment. Now it
mol natural to suppose that a child
' lender years is foot clad with
~.s rs y tight as to produce corns.
~ nem, as with older persons,
as''re i the originator, providing corns
& a' 70. hereditary as consumption and
INJURED diseases are in some families"
Lou don't mean to say that corns
= e handed down from sire to sonpn
&. most certainly do, for they can be
wy sroaaced like bad temper, good dis
Taa0n' or any special feature of the
ass and why notp If son or
ssasnter =. has long or short nose like
~ 49, q their parents, why can't they
Is I''s eorns like their ma or pa hasp
~ ! a.1 tnls idea suggestive and reason
~. as, I, Il y an old maxim with students
sa,s - sAe oegets like, and the offspring
s,s ss,u not be a clear image of the
s1shs unless it resembled them in one
" another, corns included. It
. W sad that corns are cut and
Al sa eradicated. That may be true
~ y doubt it, but for sake of argu-
~ s We will admit the assertion.
81 - !, sre we to say about boils, scurvy
- "a = otaer Ills flesh is heir TOP Is it
hssa. s'.en tne case that parents subject
nv " : aoominations are to all appear
~ ssss nee from whatever it is. and vet
49, immediate descendants at one
Il ~ ~ e another suffer as they did. So
agetitn ooy' ana don you
q a, n y. not be possible for the tagging
= - sidewalks to bring on cornsp''
,1,. 'ady Of seventy years asked me
sssssaa sans , question not long ago. I
~ kss1ed her as / have you in what |
! - = already said, but she came back
i = s y saying that in her young DAYS
III ss great dancer, and believed
q II Il e . hardness of the floor like that
as,nn - tagging brought on the best
lsds .sls ass IN existence. Now, this old
u , ssa g many corns on her feet as
s0n would desire to have. even